Trump Amplifies Op-Ed Crediting His World Cup Vision as America’s Best

Trump shares an Andrew Giuliani column touting the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which drew 6.5 million fans across 16 host cities and filled stadiums to 99.7% capacity.

First Published: July 28, 2026, 5:49 AM ET

WASHINGTON D.C. — Donald J. Trump promoted a Fox News opinion column crediting his vision for the 2026 FIFA World Cup as a showcase of American excellence.

The column, written by Andrew Giuliani, the executive director of the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026, praised the tournament as the largest and safest in history. More than 6.5 million fans attended matches across 16 host cities in the United States, Mexico and Canada, nearly doubling the previous attendance record, according to foxnews.

“When Trump set his sights on bringing the FIFA World Cup back to the United States in 2018, he wasn’t just thinking about soccer,” Giuliani wrote. “He was thinking about legacy—about uniting a country, welcoming the world and showing what American excellence looks like as we celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday.”

Here is the full post on truthsocial: “ANDREW GIULIANI: How President Trump’s World Cup vision showed America at its very best: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/andrew-giuliani-president-trumps-world-cup-vision-showed-america-very-best” on July 28, 2026 at 9:35 AM ET.

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Trump shared the column by mentioning the source (see foxnews). The piece reported stadiums filled to 99.7% capacity, while FIFA Fan Festivals welcomed another 7.7 million visitors, and the tournament generated more than 20 billion video views worldwide. Fans from more than 150 countries experienced the event across 11 U.S. host cities, according to foxnews.

Giuliani, appointed by Trump in May 2025, has led the federal effort since establishing an Interagency Coordination Framework to align transportation, tourism, safety and security across agencies, according to cpac.org. He drove changes to the visa process so fans could enter the country and secured federal funding for the 11 U.S. host cities, according to cpac.org.

The stakes reach beyond soccer. The column reported a record-breaking economic impact, with Seattle’s Pioneer Square businesses seeing sales rise to as much as 10 Time s their average and Philadelphia projecting $770 million in economic activity, according to foxnews. Federal officials supported local law enforcement with $625 million in funding and invested another $500 million in counter-drone technology, according to foxnews.

For the average American, the tournament translated into busier downtowns, higher small-business receipts and a summer of packed stadiums in host cities from coast to coast. The infrastructure and coordination built for the event will inform preparations for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, the column said.

This is not the first World Cup staged on American soil. The United States hosted the tournament in 1994, drawing about 3.6 million fans to nine venues, a per-match attendance record that stood for decades. The 2026 edition surpassed that mark, filling stadiums across a continent for the first expanded 48-team field.

Attention now turns to the Olympics, with Los Angeles set to host the Summer Games in 2028. No further decision on the World Cup task force’s future has been announced.

American mega-events have long carried political weight, as happened before. When Los Angeles hosted the 1984 Summer Olympics, organizers turned a $232.5 million surplus after Montreal’s 1976 Games left that city with debt it repaid over 30 years, according to atlanticcouncil.org. Peter Ueberroth, who ran the 1984 organizing committee, was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, and the profit reshaped how host cities approached global sporting events for a generation.

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